Parametaria
Appearance
Parametaria | |
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Shell of Parametaria dupontii | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Buccinoidea |
Family: | Columbellidae |
Genus: | Parametaria Dall, 1916 |
Type species | |
Conus dupontii Kiener, 1846 | |
Synonyms | |
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Parametaria is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Columbellidae, the dove snails.[1]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Parametaria include:[2][3]
- Parametaria barbieri K. Monsecour & D. Monsecour, 2019
- Parametaria dupontii Kiener, 1845
- Parametaria epamella P. L. Duclos, 1840
- † Parametaria islahispaniolae (Maury, 1917)
- Parametaria macrostoma (Reeve, 1859)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Parametaria ledaluciae Rios & Tostes, 1981: synonym of Eurypyrene ledaluciae (Rios & Tostes, 1981)
- Parametaria philippinarum L. A. Reeve, 1843: synonym of Parametaria epamella (Duclos, 1840)
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Parametaria epamella
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Parametaria epamella
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Parametaria philippinarum
References
[edit]- ^ Parametaria. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 04/17/10.
- ^ Biolib
- ^ Encyclopedia of life
External links
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- Reeve, L. A. (1859). Monograph of the genus Meta. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 11, pl. 1 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London.
- Dall, W. H. (1916). Notes on West American Columbellidae. The Nautilus. 30(3): 25-29
- Jung, P. (1994). Neogene Paleontology in the Northern Dominican Republic 15. The Genera Columbella, Eurypyrene, Parametaria, Conella, Nitidella, and Metulella (Gastropoda: Columbellidae). Bulletins of American Paleontology. 106(344):1-45
- de Maintenon M. J. (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships of the tropical American columbellid taxa Conella, Eurypyrene, and Parametaria (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)". Journal of Paleontology 79(3): 497–508. doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2001)075<0024:EMAPOH>2.0.CO;2.